The Little Girl Ran Toward the Most Feared Biker at Pump Seven. What She Knew About Him Broke Everyone’s Heart.
The Little Girl Ran Toward the Most Feared Biker at Pump Seven. What She Knew About Him Broke Everyone’s Heart.
**Everyone at the Kentucky travel plaza saw the little girl run toward danger — except the little girl.**
To Junie Whitman, the enormous biker beside Pump Seven was not danger at all.
He was a bear.
A very sad bear.
Her mother, Claire, only looked away for three seconds. Three seconds to slide her credit card back into her wallet. Three seconds to reach for the sweating plastic cup in her car’s holder.
And in those three seconds, **her five-year-old daughter slipped from her hand and ran straight across the gas station.**
“Junie!” Claire screamed.
But Junie did not stop.
The little girl’s **pink sneakers slapped against the concrete**, her two brown pigtails bouncing behind her. Her purple unicorn shirt fluttered in the hot Kentucky wind as she headed directly toward the largest, roughest man at the entire roadside travel plaza.
He stood beside a black Harley-Davidson, one hand gripping a gas nozzle.